 But I have sinuous shells, of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch; where when unyoked His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear,...  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 610edited by - 1892Full view - About this book
 | 1845 - 854 pages
...In the eun'e palace porch, where, when unyoked, His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave. Shako one, and it awakens — then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its anguet abodes, And murmurs as the ос-eau murmure there.' ' Sure enough it murmurs,' cries Mary ¡... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1845 - 484 pages
...contempt for the commonplace ornaments by which it is surrounded, with the joy wherewith — " Pleased it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." These are the far-famed lines on a shell, which Wordsworth has imitated, and every body praised, and... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...importance ; each has its history, and a thrilling story to tell, and, like the beautiful sea-shell — " Apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And...august abodes And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." A PERFECT LANGUAGE. Scholar. I wish to be moat deeply learn'd, And would, ail-willingly, pursue All... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 704 pages
...unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. And I have others given me by the nymphs, Of sweeter sound than any pipe you have ; But we, by Neptune... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...unyoked, His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave : Shake one, and it awakens ; then apply Its polish'd lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. And I have others given me by the nymphs, Of sweeter pound than any pipe you havc. But we, by Neptune,... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 696 pages
...unyoked His ehariot-wheel stands midway in the wave : _Shake one and it awakens, then apply 'its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the oeean murmurs there. And I have others given me by the nymphs, Of sweeter sound than any pipe you have... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors - 1846 - 508 pages
...which became a part of himself, and which, even as the sound of the sea fills the shell, as " pleased it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there," filled the trembling hollows of his ear ; he is an object of profoundly pathetic, as well as tragic... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 584 pages
...unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave : Shake one and it awakens, then apply The polish'd lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there." It is as a prose writer that Mr. Landor is remarkable, and deserving of attention, of which, he himself... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 884 pages
...Take up the shell sitting silent on the mantel-piece, and it begins immediately to speak, as ' pleased it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there;' take up the book, and it will tell you news from remoter shores than those of the Pacific—from mightier... | |
 | 1847 - 446 pages
...Take up the shell sitting silent on the mantel-piece, and it begins immediately to speak, as ' pleased it remembers its august abodes, and murmurs as the ocean murmurs there ; ' take up the book, and it will tell you news from remoter shores than those of the Pacific — from... | |
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